This will probably be uncomfortable for all of us.

Translation of Arabic text: Love live Zapata, hero of the Mexican Revolution, 1915. Long live Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni, hero of the Palestinian Revolution, 1948.

Mexico City, Mexico | Joseph Owen

@god please let Mexico beat the white devils at the World Cup tonight

@god please let Mexico beat the white devils at the World Cup tonight

One thing about me: I have an unusual knack for finding well-preserved dead things in the bush. Like a magnet. It's generally just a good eye for the particular white of sun-bleached bone, but today I was walking through some bracken wondering if I'd find anything and I nearly put my foot through this damp wild sheep skull. It had either been moved very far from the rest of its body, or the other bones were a separate animal. I also found what I think is a fox skull which was sitting on a low ledge by the path under some ferns, like a little gift.

on survival

The voluminous reports of presidential commissions on violence, racism, and civil disorder have recently begun to say to us what artists like Melville and Faulkner had earlier prophesied: that myths reach out of the past to cripple, incapacitate, or strike down the living. It is by now commonplace that our adherence to the "myth of the frontier" -- the conception of America as a wide-open land of unlimited opportunity of the strong, ambitious, self-reliant individual to thrust his way to the top -- has blinded us to the consequences of the industrial and urban revolutions and to the need of social reform and a new concept of individual and communal welfare. Nor it is by a far-fetched association that the murderous violence that has characterized recent political life has been linked by poets and news commentators alike to the "frontier psychology" of our recent past and long heritage. The first colonists saw in America the opportunity to regenerate their fortunes, their spirits, and the power of their church and nation; but the means to that regeneration ultimately became the means of violence, and the myth of regeneration through violence became the structuring metaphor of the American experience.”